day no. 17,334: chesterton's last words

“The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.” — G. K. Chesterton

These are reportedly, depending on who you talk to, either some of the last words of G.K. Chesterton, or the very last words ever sad by him. Either way, the sentiment is one of parting words.

It calls to mind the same kind of wrap up music that Solomon uses at the end of Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

There is light and there is darkness and they are mutually exclusive. You must choose one or the other. To refuse to make a choice is to choose the darkness. 

Acts 17:30

God commandeth all men every where to repent.

Everyone has been commanded by God to repent. To not repent is to repent of repentance. Everyone repents of something. They either repent of their repentlessness or they repent of the idea of having to something to repent of.

“‘Have you ever noticed,’ said Dimble, ‘that the universe, and every bit of the universe is always hardening and narrowing and coming to a point?’ His wife waited as those wait who know by long experience the mental processes of the person who is talking to them. ‘I mean this,’ said Dimble in answer to the question she had not asked. ‘If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family – anything you like – at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow room and contrasts weren’t quite so sharp; and that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder.’” — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

Neutrality is not impractical, it is impossible and that fact is becoming increasingly more obvious as God continues to bring everything under one head, the Lord Jesus Christ.

"As we reject the myth of neutrality, we must remember that we are not rejecting neutrality as a bad thing, but rather as an impossible thing." — Douglas Wilson, Excused Absence

It is Christ or chaos. There is no third way. There is Christ, the Light of the World, and there is the utter darkness. Choose wisely. Choose faithfully. But you will have to choose.